Welcome!

We hope you are enjoying the sunshine. Thanks so much for your support during the Dublin Writers Festival and Bealtaine during May.  If you haven’t yet seen our current exhibitions, get your skates on.  Barbara Knezevic’s Ultra in the Ground Floor Gallery and Of Space and Place, Geraldine O’Reilly and Margo McNulty’s exploration of Achill on the First Floor close on Saturday. You can catch up on the artists’ talks and some of the Dublin Writers Festival events at www.vimeo.com/dccartsoffice. 

We’d love to see you at the reception for our next exhibitions on Thursday 19^th June.  Baby on Board is back and will have it’s own special exhibition reception on the 27th.  If your children are a little older, we’re happy to announce details of our Children’s Art In Libraries summer programme. A real highlight this coming month has got to be the Public Art pop up operas commission, and there’s still time to get involved.

Dublin Your City Your Voice has just launched their Arts and Culture survey. We would love if you took time to have your voice heard, and there are some great prizes. click here

Don’t forget, if once a month is not enough, you can follow us on twitter @labdcc, find us on facebook or watch us on vimeo.com/dccartsoffice

All the best from the Arts Office Team

This exhibition of film and installation was developed during a residency at the Organic Centre Co. Leitrim last year.  Working with the staff and students of the centre, Shevlin researched and recreated a series of experiments, inspired by the cult novel Supernature, by Lyall Watson (1973),   exploring the many and often astounding ways in which nature manifests itself and adapts to its environment including lunar cycles and Hashimoto’s experiments in giving voice to a cactus. 

But Never Mind is the most recent iteration of Mooney's continuing experimentation of split screen video, an approach that she describes as allowing 'instantaneous burps' of unrelated imagery to collide and spark new modes dialogue. Clichéd imagery recalls sentimental 1970s nature posters or stock video photography, offering brief yet unexpectedly emotive pairs of dual images, insistantly prodding the viewing to wonder at their meaning. 

Curated by Anne Mullee

After a short hiatus, Baby on Board is back! This is a chance for parents to catch up over a cup of coffee and take a look at our new exhibition, talk about art and be suitably interrupted by little people’s demands! We have chairs, cushions, changing facilities and lots of room for buggies. We provide the tea, coffee and biscuits – feel free to bring cake, friends, smallies and rice cakes.  

A Sleeping Princess, The fables of Aesop and a story shop run by the eccentric Mr. Higgle Piggle – we’re exploring all sorts of different stories this Summer, stories that will come in all shapes and sizes. So whether you want to create them or listen to them, theChildren’s Art in Libraries Programme is giving you the opportunity to discover the stories that are unique and special to you.

With eleven programmes taking place across 9 libraries, a broad range of artists have been commissioned to create short-term Arts Programmes that any child who lives in the City will have the opportunity to access. Adopting a Storytelling theme, we have developed a series of engaging programmes for children that have a distinctly creative approach. Inspired by Aesop's Fables, Making Fables will encourage participants to tell stories through simple animations of artwork, made through drawing, collage and construction. 

Rehearsals have begun for Dublin City Council’s latest public art commission - a series of five short operas entitled Things We Throw Away - music by Brian Irivne and text by John McIlduff - produced by Wide Open Opera. Each of the five operas tells a distinctive story about things or moments that we might ordinarily observe and pass by. A specially recruited community choir sings Suck it in - as they relish the moment of peace they have while taking a quick cigarette break outside a building. A father and son drink in a bar, the son passes out, the father thinks back to when he was a young boy and he carried him on his shoulders. Drive by Shooting features two old ladies on zimmer frames, chasing an old man on a zimmer frame, determined to shoot him because he has been unfaithful to one of them. A banana-selling woman on Capel Street reflects. A discarded Ironing board sings to the discarded Iron a passionate song about when they were young and steamy. 

This October Dublin City will go gothic for the third annual Bram Stoker Festival, running Friday 24^th through to Monday 27^th October 2014.  Festival Artistic Director Jo Mangan has been giving us a sneak preview of what’s in store and information about an upcoming artists’ call-out… (more)

“We’re thrilled to have the chance to channel the darker side in putting together the Bram Stoker Festival 2014. It’s going to be a fantastic and unexpected bank holiday weekend for those wanting to get their inner goth on, as well as aficionados of the work of Mr. Stoker himself.

Star of Ros na Rún Takes on Beckett!

Macdara Ó Fátharta, the villainous barman Tadhg Ó Direáin in Ros na Rún, is playing in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in the Irish Language at The New Theatre, Dublin, this coming June.

Macdara had a lengthy stage career at The Abbey, as well as appearing in the films Far and Away, The Blackwater Lightship, and the first ever Irish Language feature film Poitín. This is Macdara’s first Beckett role. Téip Dheireanach Krapp is a new translation of Beckett’s celebrated one man show by world renowned poet and translator Gabriel Rosenstock. It is directed by Cathal Quinn, Artistic Director of the award winning Mouth on Fire Theatre Company, who has already taken Beckett’s work to India this year, and is just back from its second highly successful trip to Japan.

The company has received backing from Dublin City Council, Foras na Gaeilge and Culture Ireland has kindly supported the performances abroad.

Performance Dates:  June 9^th – 14^th 2014 @7.30pm  (Preview Monday 9^th June)

Venue:   The New Theatre, 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 

 www.thenewtheatre.com   01 670 33 61

Tickets:  €15/€12

Click here to take part in the latest Your Dublin, Your Voice survey

Complete our sixth "Your Dublin, Your Voice" survey - Arts and Culture in the City.  Let us know what you think and be in with a chance of winning some amazing summer in Dublin prizes:

·         Two one-day tickets for Longitude Festival in Marlay Park

·         Two tickets to see Dara O’Briain’s hilarious ‘Crowd Tickler’ Live at Vicar Street

·         A gift voucher for 2 tickets to a show of your choice at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014 (subject to availability)

·         Two tickets for a highlight show in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2014

·         Tour of Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane and lunch for two in the on-site café

·         Two tickets for the exciting new Dublin Bus and Dublin Bay Cruises Dublin -  Land and Sea Tour

·         Two tickets for the fabulous Dublin Bus Coast, Gardens and Glendalough Tour

·         Five copies of ‘If Ever you Go – A Map of Dublin in Story and Song’

For full terms and conditions and more information visit www.yourdublinyourvoice.ie

To be in with a chance of winning one of the great prizes please click here to complete the survey. The survey will only take 10 minutes of your time.  The closing date for completing this survey is 6pm on Monday 23 June.

Don't forget to tell your family and friends to register by visiting www.yourdublinyourvoice.ie

Join the staff of Pearse Street Library during the month of June for reading groups, film club and poetry / prose readings. 

They have three reading groups for adults,  on the first Thursday of the months from 11.30am to 12.30pm, one the second Monday of the month from 7pm to 8pm and the Early Worms Reading Group on the last Monday of the month from 10am to 11.30am.

The Film Club meet on the last Thursday of the month from 5.30pm. Contact the library in advance for the film titles. 

Speaking Words; Rediscover the pleasure of the spoken word in our monthly poetry/prose reading space. Each month a poet or prose writer will read a selection of their work. When possible readings will be interspersed with live music. Contact the library for details of this month’s date and writer or if you are interested in reading your work for a live audience. Admission free, all welcome. Light refreshments.

For further details please contact_
Pearse Street Library, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Tel. 6744888, Email: pearsestreetlibrary@dublincity.ie

The following JobBridge internships opportunities are currently advertised on jobbridge.ie – Closing date for applications Friday 6^th June

Commissions & Projects Assistant – Ref: INTE - 846772

The intern will gain practical experience in: art projects and commission management and delivery, working in a local authority arts office and city stakeholder environment. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following: arts projects commissioning and management, computer skills, stakeholder collaboration, customer service, general office administration. On completion the intern will have attained skills in: art projects and commission management and delivery, customer service and general office administration.

Third Level - Masters in Arts or Fine Arts / Arts Administration / Cultural Policy or equivalent

Marketing & Promotions Assistant – Ref: INTE-846761

The intern will gain practical experience in: arts marketing & promotion, working in a local authority arts office and city stakeholder environment. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following: in arts marketing and promotion, computer skills, customer service, general office administration. On completion the intern will have attained skills in: arts marketing and promotion and working in a local authority arts office.

Third Level - MA Graduates with primary or Masters Degree in one of the following: Arts (fine art / art history, music, film, dance, literature, theatre, architecture etc. PR and Marketing, Event Management.

Please e-mail: performanceanddevelopment@dublincity.ie for an application form. Closing date: Friday 6th June 2014.

As the submission deadline approaches, the Fingal Film Festival team are overwhelmed with the response of filmmakers in this, the third year of the festival. June 30^th is the final day of the submissions and the festival organisers and staff want to extend their congratulations to all the filmmakers who have submitted material to date.

We have eight awards up for grabs this year, which will be presented on the final night of the festival at our awards ceremony night on September 28^th 2014. These prizes have been sponsored by organisations such as TG4, Film Equipment Hire Ireland, Cannon, BAI (Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) Swords Express and many more, consisting of prizes ranging from cash – film equipment to broadcasting of films.

Electronic textiles or e-textiles are a new emerging interdisciplinary field of research which brings together specialists in information technology, microsystems, materials, and textiles. These innovative textile materials incorporate conductive fibers and electronics components into the textile itself eliminating the need for wires and other hard materials. The focus of this new area is on developing technologies and fabrication techniques for the creation of soft circuits.

New members are welcome to join any of our two-hour drawing groups that meet on Saturdays (mornings/afternoons) or Wednesday evenings (6.30-8.30pm).

The group started in 2012 and met every two weeks at Commonplace Studios as a social outlet and as a way to share skills. We had a break in 2013 and have commenced meeting regularly again since March 2014. Documentation of past workshops is available on our Facebook page and Commonplace website (see info below). A separate blog for Commonplace Drawing is currently under construction.

Helium Arts in partnership with Create is hosting a seminar on Art and Design Strategies in Healthcare with Jackie Sands (Arts & Health Improvement Senior with the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) and Vicky Charnock (Arts Coordinator at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool).

There will be a film screening of MISSING GREEN followed by a  panel discussion on June 19th at that will take place as part of the exhibition of "Missing Green" by Anne Maree Barry taking place at Pallas Projects PP/S 18-21 June 2014. 

The panel discussion is chaired by Eadaoin Ni Chleirigh (CEO of Teresa's Garden Regeneration Project and St Michael's Estate) with Anne Maree Barry (artist-filmmaker), John Gallagher (Councillor), Gerry Cahill Architect, Aileen O'Gorman (post-doctoral research fellow, School of Applied Social Science, UCD).

Artist Chris Reid has a new project Happy Destiny made with the help of friends in the community in Ballyfermot and West Dublin Access Radio. It  will be broadcast on West Dublin Access Radio (96fm) over three successive Wednesdays - May 28th, June 4th and June 11th at 10.30am. 

A lively programme featuring a host of devious divas and merciless monarchs from Baroque opera. Enjoy the wicked antics of operatic femmes fatales such as Cleopatra, Alcina and their hapless male victims. Relish the power-mad pursuits of operatic tyrants such as Tamerlano and Tolomeo reeling out in splendid coloratura. Featuring students of DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.

Admission Free, Info: claire.connell@dit.ie

'At a time when the definition of drawing is wide open, when any type of mark making is drawing by definition, it is refreshing to encounter the work of artists who have built up a significant body of individual, sophisticated and intelligent drawings, drawings that have been honed from years of careful observation of the world around them. Tentative inquiry, firm resolution, coupled with a thorough knowledge of past achievements by masters of the art, have brought the careers of Sahoko Blake and Dorothy Smith to their present level of accomplishment.'
Mick O'Dea Aosdana, RHA
Catalogue available with foreword by Mick O'Dea Aosdana, RHA
Complete exhibition can be viewed online at www.gormleys.ie

The countdown is on to the first ever Christ Church Cathedral garden festival.  From Friday 13th until Sunday 15th June 2014, Christ Church Cathedral will be transformed into a stunning floral arcadia with contemporary and classic arrangements designed by some of Ireland’s most talented and award-winning floral artists. As a leading tourist destination, every year we welcome thousands of visitors through our doors to either visit a site of unique heritage or to celebrate with us. We look forward to welcoming many more to enjoy the spectacular array of floral displays that will fill the medieval building with colour on the festival weekend, when we will truly bring the outside inside!

A woman who talks to the walls, a girl who must face the sea, and a young man who collects footprints, Fregoli is delighted to present the debut of Shur I’ll be Alright here on Me Own, a collection of three new monologues; Mrs Pyromaniac, Headfirst and The Sole Collector by Maria Tivnan. Performed with heart and energy these pieces promise to both move and entertain. 

The award-winning Little Museum Dublin is delighted to announce to the launch of The Green Mile, a brilliant new walking tour that tells the story of St Stephen’s Green, a square which has been at the centre of Irish history for hundreds of years.

People who buy hop-on hop-off tour tickets now enjoy complimentary access to the Little Museum, which normally costs €7 to visit. The partnership is seen as a natural fit, given the popularity and charm of both attractions.

Dublin Bus Sightseeing tours allow visitors to experience Dublin’s best attractions, while the Little Museum was recently named the ‘best museum experience in Dublin’ by the Irish Times.

Ranelagh Arts Centre, 26 Ranelagh Main Street

Tel: 015477775

info@ranelagharts.org
www.ranelagharts.org

The Rock Creek Singers (Washington DC) and The Pink Singers (London) are delighted to host an afternoon concert at AXIS as part of the Various Voices LGBT choral festival, taking place from 13th to 16th June 2014. Various Voices is an international gay choral festival that takes place every four years in a European city. For the first time, it is being hosted in Dublin!

Michael Collins (clarinet)

Michael McHale (piano)

Bax: Sonata for Clarinet in D major

Ferguson: Four Short Pieces for Clarinet, op 6 Stanford : Sonata for Clarinet, op 129

In association with KBC Great Music in Irish Houses

The Sundays @ Noon Concert Series is funded by Dublin City Council and grant aided by The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon

ADMISSION FREE
For further information: CLICK HERE

Season Four of the Dublin Film Qlub, “Burning the Closet!”, looking at films after 1968 and throughout the 70s, continues with…

TWICE A WOMAN, ( Twee Vrouwen ), Dir. George Sluizer, 1979. Starring: Bibi Anderson, Sandra Dumas, Anthony Perkins

Saturday 21 June 2014, 2:30 pm, (doors open at 2pm), The New Theatre, East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Day membership €8, (free tea and coffee).

Dublin Film Qlub
http://www.filmqlub.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=368192080094

Our next breakfast meeting for Arts & Cultural Freelancers is Monday June 9th at 9.45-11.30am in Create-Ireland, Filmbase, Level 2, Curved Street, Temple Bar.

As ever, we are open to new members and to anyone who works in the arts & cultural sector.

Please RSVP now to book your place as spots are limited.
amy.littlestar@gmail.com
@ArtsFreelanceIE
facebook.com/culturalfreelancersireland

This summer programme is designed for talented teen writers looking to develop their skills, learn about the practicalities of being and becoming a writer in today's world, and to have fun. The workshop is suitable for those interested in all genres, from poetry to fantasy to video-game scripts. Topics such as finding inspiration, exploring and refining ideas, planning and editing, and discipline will all be covered.

In 2014 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual international creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland and internationally. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2014. The 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2014/15. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction category. The winner in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry published in the April 2015 issue of Skylight 47 magazine.

Closing date: Wednesday, August 6^th, 2014

Smithfield Square is open and happening. This summer sees the start of open air events devised by The Complex, featuring lunchtime music in May and June, comedy on Father's Day, salsa and zumba in July and more after the summer break. These events are all free and brought to you by Dublin City Council. www.thecomplex.ie

'Complexions' is a public art project by the Complex, located in Benburb Street from Smithfield to Collins Barracks. Commissioned by the Law Society of Ireland, it aims to capture the essence of Smithfield through photography, featuring the work of Jarlath Rice. It runs until the end of the year.

Summer nights street performances in Temple Bar, every Thursday evening from June to the end of August, programmed by The Complex 6-9pm.